... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

... ^1/ifl^AjJyjj- (tsl iiu 1\vh>isuj Citizen Kane By James Agate ONE of the disadvantages of all kinds of criticism, including that of the film, is that the better it is the greater the probability that it will lead you up the garden. I practically never read the film criticisms in the Observer and the Sunday Times until after I have seen the films for myself, the reason being that our Sunday ...

... Citizen Kane Mag ate into Monster: Fifty Crowded Years of Wasted Life j| pfe>y* vwtf, scfo^s;>'1 n^s BF n 9H Orson Welles as Citizen Kane 8. Epilogue. Kane dies at seventy-Jive. A news-reel staff working among the art treasures attempt to unravel the mystery behind ''Rosebud f/ie /asf word to pass his lips 6. Divorced Kane mar ries his pretty singer, spends nearly a million on building her ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Lunch Hour By Bridget Chetwynd CLARIDGE’S is very popular at lunch time-- the entrance is almost like a railway station at holiday time, with people dashing in, looking at the clock, shouldering about looking for other people, demanding change for taxis, saying, Oh, there you are-- There 's just time-- (For a drink before the train leaves.) And in ...

... Three Generations Lord and Lady Hot ham With Their Parents and Their Son and Heir Lord Hotham, who succeeded his cousin in 1923 as seventh Baron, married in 1937 Lady Letitia Sibell Winifred Cecil, elder daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Exeter. They have a son and heir, Henry Durand, born in May 1940, who is a godson of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Hotham's places in Yorkshire ...

... At intervals during the last year the voice of Germany's greatest living author has been heard in the land from which he is exiled. He speaks into the microphone in America on problems close to the German heart, his broad- east is picked up and recorded in London, and then re-broadcast to Germany by the B.B.C. overseas service. It was in 1938 that the sixty-three-year-old writer had to leave ...

... Night on the Bare Mountain The Ballet from Sorotchintsi Fair, the Russian Comic Opera at the Savoy Mussorgski's comic opera, Sorot chintsi Fairt which is having such a successful run at the Savoy Theatre, is to go on tour at the end of this week. The simple and humorous story of Ukrainian peasant life, George Kirsta's vivid costumes and decor, combined with the excellent singing of Oda Slo- ...

... I Eye Witness By Elizabeth Bowen ONE of our troubles, in the last two years, has been that while almost everybody is ready to theorise, few people are in the position to make exact statements. With regard to certain facts and affairs, either ignorance affecting to be discretion or discretion disguising itself as ignorance inhibits almost everybody one meets. We have to be content to remain ...

... The Second Son of Flying Officer and Mrs. Jack Purbrick with His Parents I Tunbrulee-Sedewick Lieutenant and Mrs. Eyre and Their Daughter Georgina Mary Joan, the baby daughter of Lieut. Richard G. Eyre R.N. and Mrs. Eyre, of Queensmead Lodge, Windsor, was chris tened at Holy Trinity, Brompton. Mrs. Eyre was Miss Mary Royds, daughter of the late Admiral Sir Charles Raivson Royds and Lady Royds, ...

... MARSHALL smelgiloVe A L WUTllMM 0 V E RTU ILES _/ro m HERE, is the newest thing in Knitwear created for export to the best American Houses, but available in limited quantity to the Home market. These knitted Suits look just like tweed. They are knitted in beautiful check designs, with hardly two alike. Checks in contrasting colours include green, maroon, tan, flame, blue, grey-black and red. ...

... DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S portrait-group of ASST. SECTION LEADER ELSPETH C. HENDERSON and SERGEANT HELEN E. TURNER is on view at the National Gallery Exhibition of War Pictures. These girls are two of the first three W.A.A.F.'s to win the Military Medal. Asst. Section Leader then Corporal) Henderson and Sergeant Turner were on duty in a building which received a direct hit during a raid. Sergeant ...

... SIMPLE WINTER 1 FASHIONS 1 IN FUR AND TWEEDl WOMEN IN WARTIME IT would be unwise not to invest in furs at the earliest opportunity, as prices are rising rapidly. Coats and their acces sories must be studied on account of their wearing qualities. Natural opossum, of which this coat and hood, on the right, are made, come from Molho, 5b Duke Street, Manchester Square. They may be bought ...